This article here has those of us in the Liberal blogging community who advocate that the Liberals should be making electoral reform (ie. a form of Proportional Representation) a top priority and campaign plank very hopeful. As Greg Morrow points out, this is not the first time Dion is on record as saying he supports electoral reform and some kind of PR (but not pure PR, but few of us who support electoral reform want that either), and as he links there, I will link to Jeff’s interview with him on the topic of electoral reform here.
I have long said that the Liberals supporting electoral reforms to the House would be a bold new maneuver to show they are willing to think outside the box… as well as countering the sham “elected Senators” bill that Harper is trying to pass off for reform. So, I’m pleased to see Dion go into more public detail about it.. and I hope he will consider making that a prominent election promise.
Meh, I’ve never been a big fan of pure PR, I think B.C. had the right idea with the STV system (Shame they didn’t get the threshold required). I could live with mixed-member PR if need be since it’s at least preferable over FPTP.